The Current

Building Matter

A major goal of so many of our electronic designs is to allow our systems to achieve full autonomy.  Whether we're looking at creating homes that adapt to our lives on the fly, factories that are fully automated with reduced need for personnel, or self driving vehicles, user expectations on our system's capabilities continues to rise.  In this episode, Todd talks with Steve Robbins Principal Field Applications Engineer: Radar, Sensors, & RF, Infineon Sensor Group about how advances in sensor technology are allowing us to keep up in our next generation of products.

Lighting the Way with IR

Image sensors continue to improve in capability, but illuminating the source can often be a challenge as not every application is meant to stay out of the dark.  In situations where light levels may be lower than we'd like, engineers can  utilize light wavelengths like infrared that are invisible to the eye, but perfect for our electronics' vision. In this episode, Todd talks with Russell Willner,  Sr. Marketing Manager for Visualization and Sensing products at ams OSRAM about exporing Infared (IR) and its capabilities in today's designs.

The Power Predicament

Power is one of the most fundamental problems engineers must solve in any design.  Maximizing efficiency, minimizing size, and keeping costs and design complexity low becomes more strident when dealing with AC to DC power conversion where many off the shelf power supplies can greatly simplify designs. In this episode, Todd talks with Doug Bailey, VP of Marketing at Power Integrations on whether there is still a place for designing custom AC/DC supplies, and what would be the best path for engineers.

The FPGA Evolution

Field Programmable Gate Arrays have been critical to our designs as engineers where speed of execution is critical, parallel operation is required, and the ability to reconfigure hardware needs to be available.  FPGA technology has been a backbone of communication infrastructure, military applications, and video and signal processing that has made our world what it is today. In this episode, Todd speaks with our own Richard Interrante Director of Future Intelligent Solutions on how the technology will continue to evolve.

Sifting through Microcontoller Technology

Microcontroller technology continues to be critical to the development of applications. What these incredible devices allow us to bring to our products is nothing short of amazing, but with more complexity required in our designs we're demanding more from them than ever. In this episode Todd talks with Daniel Hou, Technical Marketing Engineer at NXP about his insights into this technology.

How Secure is Secure Enough?

The interconnection of devices brings a whole new range of threats to personal data, identities and safety. Embedded Security continues to be a key area where engineers must focus attention to ensure systems are not providing gateways for misuse of designs that can hurt our end users. In this episode, Todd speaks with Xavier Bignalet, Product Marketing Manager at Microchip on making our systems and designs safe.

Wireless Capability Crescendo

Engineers continue to build a strong knowledge of designing wireless products for general communication. Now, that communication is getting more complex with needs for indoor location, mesh networking, and precise object tracking. In this episode, Todd speaks with Matt Rose, Senior Field Applications Engineer at Panasonic about new tools that are available to make these wireless applications easier to implement.

Ohm's Law of Security

Embedded Security is often seen as incredibly complex, with engineers asking themselves the constant question of "how secure is secure enough?" To help answer that question, Todd chats with Patrick Carrier,  Product Marketing Manager at Infineon. They discuss how to understand security and implementing it in our systems.

Industry Overview

The semiconductor industry is expected to grow to over 1 trillion by 2033, but as we enter this year and the instability of the global market, will that still be the trajectory? In this first episode of Season Four, Todd discusses with our very own Karim Yasmine, Executive VP of Global Marketing, what the major areas of growth will be.

Artificial Intelligence in Next-Gen Designs

Artificial Intelligence is a key buzzword in the industry as we look to expand the capabilities of our embedded systems to operate with greater autonomy. In this episode, Todd speaks with Markus Mayr, Product Marketing Manager at ST about embedded engineers look to design this new technology into the next generation of our products.